STERN BROTHERS & COMPANY

DORMAN H. O'LEARY
VICE PRESIDENT KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI

July 1, 1942.

Dear Phog:

Thank you very much for your letter of the
twenty-ninth and the copies of the correspondence
which you enclosed.

This came at an interesting time, since we
discussed informally at the last auditorium meeting
on Monday this basketball situation. Hajj Welch is,
of course, very much interested in getting Missouri
to play here with Kansas, and had called me about it.
He was not at the last auditorium meeting.

Jack Grover, Herb Boning, Louis Lower and I
did talk about the whole situation, and the unanimous
agreement was that you were perfectly proper in your
objections to staging a double-header with Missouri
one of the participating teams, particularly in view
of the fact that they would want to cut in on a share
of the profit, to which none of them felt they were:
entitled. After all, it was your idea and your game.

We did feel, however, that if it were possible
to play double-headers on those two nights, it would
draw additional spectators. The general feeling is
that the people of Kansas City like to see two basket-
ball games for the price of one. Naturally, we would
expect that the other two teams playing that night get
only a very modest percentage of the gate; in fact, it
was suggested that they be given only their expenses.

Of course, the problem is to find two teams.
If we could get two Kansas City high school teams, IL
think it might help somewhat. It is possible that the
Gardner Naval Air Base may have a basketball team who
could be brought in to play some other local opponent
as a curtain-raiser.